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Opinion Journal: The Supreme Gun Case

Collin Levy and Brian Carney discuss a Supreme Court ruling on guns' rights and a ruling on the PCOAB and Sarbanes Oxley.

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... for the ends of the Supreme Court in a huge Don't Write Skates ... and Sarbanes ... Oxley was ruled unconstitutional in part welcomed opinion Journal ... I've first of two of ... his decisions today from the Supreme Court ... on the gun case we go to a ... column Levy senior editorial page writer wash and Bureau calm place for joining us ... Aidan's ... so I into thousandeight we learn that though the federal government can take away your rights only gone ... and that today we learned something about what the states and cities can do ... write effectively basically what happened today was that the Supreme Court said that the same standards ... that applied to the District of Columbia also by the city of Chicago ... and that so ... I knew that this is where we had a few years ago Intel or two years ago Intel are ... basically said that the second Amendment does protect an individual right to bear arms ... with the Supreme Court said today in five decision ... was that under the fourteenth amendment that I constitutional right also extends ... to cover states in municipalities and the way that they regulate guns ... so it was an important decision both on a policy matter also level on a constitutional Apple because ... they were looking at some very interesting aspects of the fort in London ... that's right so was ... the verdict here are of no government of any level in the United States can take away your right to bear arms but to ... what is it say about their ability to limit that I mean does that people ... will will naturally ask how does this mean I kinda ... arm myself with whatever I want if I think that's necessary for home defense ... well I think this bill is going to be some but some room for reasonable ... regulations I think it's a really villain is the union for the majority said that ... it swung completely foreclose the ability of states and cities to ... create some regulations but it will certainly one of them ... and that's something that ... you know it's unnatural ... I'll prove that this kind of constitutional ... over constitutional system ... OK so we bought at the right to bear arms although reasonable limits can be placed on ... the question a lot of people are gonna have looking at these five for decisions is ... inflating Khaykin was on the court with this I have come out any differently ... read I think that's that's a key question here and I think it was a surprise to a lot of people but it that this was that the gun position in particular was a five or decision ... as I think a lot of people expected it to be a little bit less ... less less person handling the cake and in particular it's good that you ask ... you can see this was very vocal in her time at the White House on ... the new regulations that she was quite ... an active both ... in encouraging the Clinton White House to ... be aggressive in its own regulation and there's also a member of its hero when she was a clerk for ... Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall ... in which she was quite dismissive of time a very ... very similar lawsuits the one that the events that came before the court in Peller ... on so I think that the sentence they will certainly look at our Alina Khaykin and ask for ... how was how she would ... have shaken out and spends it ... yet I think it should be clear that ... while she wouldn't change the five for ... all your point is only given how well she's often lauded for being a very smart persuasive ... politically savvy of the concern would be is that once she's up part of the four that she then is able to bring over Number five potentially ... yet I think I think that's part of it and I think this just gets the ... importance of ... these appointments I think we've also seen ... here with Barack Obama is less of criminal justice of some use of Atlanta that ... she says but the very reliably with the liberal side of the court ... and down and you know as as we go forward and get ... other justices appointed by ... the Senate Obama I think that something that we expect to see a shift in tariff assistance ... OK know why we go another big decision up another win for limited government although of ... not that clear-cut victory maybe we saw on this gun case and that is of ... like a key part of the Sarbanes Oxley law of the ... accounting of rulemaking that was passed in a rush after the Enron scandals in two thousand two ... of the board than that of overseas the auditing industry has been ruled ... unconstitutional what was the what was the decision there ... whether the Cicero was basically that ... it was a violation of the claimant's clauses the separation of powers problem ... essentially that the president should have the ability to ... fire ... them ... in ... a principal officers of some of these sorts of boards and he didn't have that ability would be ... high with a PC AOB and so the court came down and said that ... that was an appropriate unconstitutional but Sarbanes Oxley continues of this law this has had huge unintended costs of ... questionable benefits ... now the SEC's ... conspire to members of the sport so presumably if SEC's chairman Mary Schuker wants to exercise a little more adult supervision ... she can do that now she's got a little bit more of a club over that ... the people reading all the auditing rules ... on ... but the but fundamentally that the law continues to operate as it passes I read ... it it that is right or am I think they they could have gone farther in this but I think it still is does send a message that when these ... sorts of laws get support in Congress but quickly there's all sorts of constitutional Mr. that can happen here and I think the Supreme Court still deliver there is that ... investing in setting a message for now we're in our colleague the editor of the editorial page Wall Street Journal Europe by Brian Carney is joining us from London ... Brian thanks for being here ... banks since the division ... the aam ... and looking at this for more than one that was certainly a big beneficiary of the Sarbanes Oxley law ... generally made it more expensive and difficult to list the shares here in the United States a lot of companies a ... top London was a little more hospitable so ... in the in the city there in the Financial of market or the breathing a sigh of relief that the SAAR box that ... fold away entirely and now there's still an incentive for companies to look it one bit ... I don't I don't think we felt that big blow to the recall said they the difficulties that Starbucks through in the way of ... companies ... being public or going public in the US I ... I doubt that anyone in in London is going to lose any sleep over this ruling it was ... what's amazing is a fight for ruling even though it was very narrow in scope there was some hope that it would ... take striker more of ... a broader blow against Sarbanes Oxley but ... all they said that she said is that the ESDC acting as a group can remove ... these members of the the accounting oversight Board ... without having to show cause as the original on seven ... yet this is this isn't ... a very good surprises me that it was five for good and how how narrow it was but it was clearly very contentious as he beat the heat of the opinion on the descent ... you would with a glass half full here though thinking if I would say the NCC wants to reform ... we have recently the Congress passing an exemption for companies below a seventy five million the market value from of the worst parts of Sarbanes Oxley the ... highly expensive internal controls on its of the political environment seems of ... amenable to somehow reform here ... it's not the current Assisi chairman at least future one now has a lot more ... ability to to ride herd on the regulators were really driving all these talks mean the PCA it's it's known ... affectionately as the Kabu in corporate America ... that is ground zero for world these costs are coming from ... that's true although there was some hope that they the Congress would have to return to the law itself and restructure the the PCA of the board ... in which case the and the game could've been wide open but we didn't really get that and so ... Congress is not enough to revisit the law what the data suggests struck out that the provision that ... prevented the SCC from firing these people ... and ... then let the whole rest of its stance of ... the ICC could produce so although they they could have done so already because they have some oversight ... not over they didn't have oversight over who was on the board wants he appointed them that they had oversight over the actual makings of a maze ... built base to left that oversight but ... note that the hope that maybe some insights into custody the visited amid ... a broader rethink of its principles this kind of been dashed by the tepid ruling here ... fair enough for an hour ... speaking of our Congress revisiting rules though ... they're obviously of on the brink of a ... setting of the president the new financial rules affect the market so from ... our economy in the world ... of ... what is the of the Sarbanes Oxley ruling today branded not as broad as we might've light but the fact that this of ... this loft ... of the last financial reform ... was in Cuts unconstitutional in part that ... was the message there for a ... people here in Congress if they wanna listen ... well I think it's good to be whereof of laws passed an eruption in the dead of night Friday week ... nobody knows what's in this Dodd Frank bill and ... as for the health care bill nobody will know until months or maybe years after its Prasanta bound to be ... constitutional or other on landmines lurking in these bills is that ... the rush to their cobbled together in a great hurry that ... they are ... incredibly long and extremely complex ... read about the Noida are entirely correct outlets Oakley asleep on this one before voting for the ... Pope would vote against it that things have fallen in D C in brine in London ... thanks Ian for opinion Journal lot please come back tomorrow never didn't thanks